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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1202188, member: 26302&quot;]I think you are being a little harsh Chris. You have your own bit of opinion here too:</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe that&#039;s all you can afford, but it&#039;s obvious you don&#039;t know too much about the grading services</p><p><br /></p><p>Read more: <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t180725-3/#ixzz1PFgvHT00" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t180725-3/#ixzz1PFgvHT00">http://www.cointalk.com/t180725-3/#ixzz1PFgvHT00</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t buy TPG graded coins, and have collected coins for 30 years, and spend about 10k a year on coins. Is it because I cannot &quot;afford&quot; them also? I simply do not like chasing &quot;grade rarities&quot; and rely on my own expertise for authentication and grading most of the time. If I am unsure I stay away from the issue. For full disclosure, TPG is one of the main issues that drove me away from US coins. I don&#039;t want to collect plastic, and TPG ups the costs and drive many collectors to only worry about the plastic, kind of like beanie babies.</p><p><br /></p><p>He also has a point about most people not profiting on dealer purchases, because in collectible markets there are large swings between buying retail and selling wholesale. I agree with him, and its why &quot;investing&quot; in coins is really an oversell by the dealers to drum up more sales to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem I have with the OP post is in my experience an original roll usually only had colored coins on the ends and on the rims. Usually no toning is present on the inner coins, except for the rims. If these were really bank rolls, I would expect at least 80% to be blast white. What happened was the outside of the rolls toned, protecting the silver of the inner coins. Maybe that is why NGC thought AT. Not saying the OP did anything wrong, but I have bought at least 100 original rolls of silver coins, some as old as the 40&#039;s. I have never seen color on the inner coins if they were put away as BU coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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